France is US’ ally, not its vassal state, Macron tells Trump
Tehran (KNA) - French President Emmanuel Macron has hit back at his US counterpart Donald Trump’s recent Twitter attacks, saying France is an ally of the US, not its vassal state.
"What I want you to understand is simply that the United States is our historic ally and will continue to be. It's the ally with which we take all the risks, with which we carry out the most complicated operations. But being an ally doesn't mean being a vassal state," Macron said on Wednesday.
"Between allies, we owe respect to each other, and so I don't want to hear the rest of it. I think what the French people expect of me is not to respond to tweets, but instead to commit on continuing this important history," he said in a televised interview aboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in Toulon, southern France.
"I think he's playing American politics, and I let him play American politics. I am not in charge of that, and I think that is not what is expected of me by our fellow citizens," he went on to say.
Macron's comments came after Trump unleashed what seemed like a personal grudge against the French president over his recent call to establish a "real, European army" to provide "protection from China, Russia, and even from the United States of America."
Source: PressTV